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Lot Essay
Joseph de St. Germain, mâitre in 1748.
Jean-Baptsite III Albert Baillon became a maître in 1727 and succeeded as Valet de Chambre-Horloger Ordinaire and Premier Valet de Chambre to both Queen Marie Leczinska and the dauphine Marie-Antoinette. With a large workshop in Saint-German-en-Laye he was one of the most important and wealthy clockmakers of the 18th century.
A virtually identical clock, the case stamped Jean-Joseph De St. German (1719-91, maître in 1748), but surmounted by lovebirds is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopedie De La Pendule Française Due Moyeu-Age Au XX Siecle, Paris, 1997, p. 112, fig. A.
Jean-Baptsite III Albert Baillon became a maître in 1727 and succeeded as Valet de Chambre-Horloger Ordinaire and Premier Valet de Chambre to both Queen Marie Leczinska and the dauphine Marie-Antoinette. With a large workshop in Saint-German-en-Laye he was one of the most important and wealthy clockmakers of the 18th century.
A virtually identical clock, the case stamped Jean-Joseph De St. German (1719-91, maître in 1748), but surmounted by lovebirds is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopedie De La Pendule Française Due Moyeu-Age Au XX Siecle, Paris, 1997, p. 112, fig. A.